Combining Philosophers

Ideas for Colin McGinn, Pyrrho and Paul O'Grady

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3. Truth / A. Truth Problems / 1. Truth

4703	The epistemic theory of truth presents it as 'that which is licensed by our best theory of reality' [O'Grady]

4701	To say a relative truth is inexpressible in other frameworks is 'weak', while saying it is false is 'strong' [O'Grady]

3. Truth / A. Truth Problems / 4. Uses of Truth

6088	Truth is a method of deducing facts from propositions [McGinn]

3. Truth / C. Correspondence Truth / 3. Correspondence Truth critique

6084	'Snow does not fall' corresponds to snow does fall [McGinn]

6085	The idea of truth is built into the idea of correspondence [McGinn]

3. Truth / D. Coherence Truth / 2. Coherence Truth Critique

6083	The coherence theory of truth implies idealism, because facts are just coherent beliefs [McGinn]

3. Truth / H. Deflationary Truth / 3. Minimalist Truth

6086	Truth is the property of propositions that makes it possible to deduce facts [McGinn]

6087	Without the disquotation device for truth, you could never form beliefs from others' testimony [McGinn]